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NYT to successful women: suck it up

Jill Filipovic makes an important point that "When your school system runs in some substantial part on the free labor of parents (and let’s be real, it’s almost entirely the free labor of mothers), you have a big problem." There's that, and then I can't help goggling at this crap:

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GOP’s Rural White Guys: The Night They Drove New Dixie Down

Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Sarah Palin, Woman Up, Campaigns, Tea PartyA lot of Republican men prevailed in the midterms. But the female tsunami headed toward shore in 2012 could make the 2010 GOP wave look like a ripple. Permalink |...

The Year of the Woman that wasn’t

It was a neat trick.

Republicans thought they could dress up their extremist, antiquated, anti-woman ideology in a skirt and lipstick and sell it as a new, revitalized feminist movement.

But it didn’t work. Just as it didn’t work in 2008, when John McCain made his transparently cynical selection of Sarah Palin as...

Jill Clayburgh Is Dead. Long Live the Unmarried Woman!

Filed under: Woman Up, CultureClayburgh came between the movie eras where women didn't quite know where they stood and today's films with their action-figure heroines. In "An Ummarried Woman," she summed up where women were headed in the 70s. Perm...

Women in Congress Expected to Suffer Net Loss of Seats

Filed under: Senate, House, Woman Up, 2010 Elections, CongressA research group projects the number of women-held seats in Congress will drop from its current high of 90 down to 87 when the 112th Congress convenes. Permalink | Email this&...

Feminist Backlash? College Women Want to Be Treated Like Princesses

Filed under: Woman Up, IraqA college class unites American and Iraqi women in seeking a civil society, but also raises questions about which culture remains mired in old thinking about women's liberation. Permalink | Email this |&nb...

Meryl Streep on the Battle for a National Women’s History Museum

Filed under: Woman Up, CultureThe affable actress, who has pledged $1 million, talks about the politics that prevent the museum from getting space on the National Mall. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Co...

Abortion Rights = Feminism?

Filed under: Abortion, Woman Up, Culture, EthicsThe little knife in my gut does twist when our colleague Bonnie Erbe' defines as "tragic" any mother who bears and rears a child in other than "an emotionally stable, loving relationship with a similarly ...

Feminists’ Job One: Electing More Women to Office

Filed under: Woman Up, CongressWomen make up 51 percent of the U.S. population, but only 17 percent of Congress. Marie Wilson's White House Project aims to even the scales. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs |&nbs...

Abortion, Sarah Palin and Feminism: They’re Complicated

Filed under: Democrats, Republicans, Religion, Abortion, Sarah Palin, Woman Up, Conservatives, Liberals, ModeratesHas feminism been co-opted by conservatives? No -- women's views may vary widely but speaking up at all is a rebuttal against centuries of...

Does Each Woman’s Uterus Belong to Us All? The Limits of Sisterhood

Filed under: Abortion, Woman UpSome say it's a triumph that socially conservative women now embrace feminism. But when it comes to Who Owns a Woman's Body and Her Reproductive Rights, the battle lines are still drawn. Permalink | Email ...

Is ‘Conservative Feminist’ an Oxymoron? (And Do Liberals Own the F-Word?)

Filed under: Woman Up VideoOn Politics Daily's online Sunday show, we discuss this week's primary victories by Republican women and why some liberals are piqued at what they see as the co-opting of the word "feminist." Permalink | Email ...

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